Comments on: Misunderestimated http://cominganarchy.com/2005/09/12/misunderestimated/ Speak Victorian, Think Pagan Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:45:36 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Curzon http://cominganarchy.com/2005/09/12/misunderestimated/comment-page-1/#comment-27917 Curzon Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:34:25 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/?p=1092#comment-27917 The LDP even "misunderestimated their own power:":http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20050914TDY04002.htm <blockquote>The LDP even won one more seat in Tokyo under the proportional representation system than the number of candidates it fielded. As a result, the party's seat was apportioned to the Social Democratic Party instead.</blockquote> Yikes! And this: <blockquote>In the southern Kanto region bloc, an administrative worker at LDP headquarters who was fielded as a candidate to complete the list of candidates also secured election.</blockquote> The LDP even misunderestimated their own power:

The LDP even won one more seat in Tokyo under the proportional representation system than the number of candidates it fielded. As a result, the party’s seat was apportioned to the Social Democratic Party instead.

Yikes!

And this:

In the southern Kanto region bloc, an administrative worker at LDP headquarters who was fielded as a candidate to complete the list of candidates also secured election.
]]> By: Grendel http://cominganarchy.com/2005/09/12/misunderestimated/comment-page-1/#comment-27405 Grendel Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:32:31 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/?p=1092#comment-27405 The media said the same when Schröder asked president Köhler to dissolve the Bundestag, and this weekends elections are not as clear-cut as the CDU would like them to be... let's hope whoever wins gets a clear mandate. The media said the same when Schröder asked president Köhler to dissolve the Bundestag, and this weekends elections are not as clear-cut as the CDU would like them to be… let’s hope whoever wins gets a clear mandate.

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